Monday, October 31, 2005  3:02 AM
cherian and hegemony.
Friday night spelled Carl's Jr and Ben & Jerry's with my Ben & Jerry's/Royal Titles/F.R.I.E.N.D.S/ Prison warden names tutorial group. It was really fun, and provided a kind of chill-out from studying. We had Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Oatmeal Cookie Chunk, Dublin Mudslide, Chunky Monkey, Phish Food and New York Super Fudge Chunk. Yum. :)
I have come up with a list of my favourite Ben & Jerry's flavours, in two tiers of four each. It is absolutely impossible to even RANK them. That would be harder than relative velocity, I swear.
So my top four favourite flavours, in one tier, with no particular rank: Chubby Hubby, Dublin Mudslide, Chocolate Fudge Brownie and Oatmeal Cookie Chunk.
The next four in the second tier: New York Super Fudge Chunk, Phish Food, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Fossil Fuel.
I feel strangely ambivalent. Like, a weird concoction of feelings. I don't know, maybe it results from the effects of being up at 3.02am in the morning, and having my body clock totally turned topsy-turvy over the last week. I feel absolutely petulant about studying, like how I do not want to look at another page of Cherian George's "Calibrated coercion and maintenance of hegemony in Singapore", no matter how much I like Cherian George. What IS hegemony anyway?! Is it possible to read through 26 pages of his notes without knowing what it means?
Well, yes. I just did.
And there's this feeling in the pit of my stomach as well. It feels strangely like butterflies, and yet I have no idea why. Maybe it's because I'm listening to old love songs and my heart is all twisted.
Uh huh. Oh, I bought a bag today, pricey but I love it! Got it at a launch party for bags and belts imported from the States. It's all gold and colourful and glittery and lovely. I think I'll just sit here all night and admire it.
Forget Cherian George and hegemony.
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Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:34 AM
unearthly hours at the reading room.
BRAIN DEAD.
That's what I am now. I'm sitting here in one of the reading rooms in Hall 14 at 3.37am in the morning with the usual bunch, the only losers here in this dreary place with uncoordinated and unmatching pasty green and orange tables. But, at least with company, you can occasionally turn around and hold senseless conversations with the person sitting behind you, or across from you. And I think we spend about the same time slacking around and holding our usual laugh-fest, and studying.
EXAMS ARE IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS.
I'm obviously babbling at this unearthly hour of the morning, although this has been the routine for a couple of days now. First, the 108 website and video project, and then the 111 report, and now the exams.
The website and video's up though, it looks fabulous, and I could not have asked for a better team - Director-to-be Jings, Website Designer-to-be Jan and Personal Makeup Artist-to-be Arefa.
Go check it out: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home2005/chia0099
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Monday, October 24, 2005 12:23 AM
recaps of the week!
Okay, last week was busy. Sure I spent like almost all my waking moments at the MAC lab, seeing Jingli and Jan non-stop day and night for about fourteen consecutive days, with filming and editing and what not. But, we still found time to take photos, and our pizza fest at the CS rooftop on Monday night definitely was a nice break! We ordered Canadian pizza and played stupid games and danced to "As we walk to the left, and we walk to the right.. as we walk as we walk as we walk all night, with a heel and a toe and a new friend found." Yes, Jings and Luqs danced to it too. And I have the evidence. HAH. (Oh, forgive the arrangement of the pictures, I have no idea how to arrange it properly on Blogger. It does not work. I swear, computers hate me.)
The evidence!  Jan, Me and Jinggie - after filming!  Boyband shot on the rooftop.
 My CS 108 team and lollipops in the MAC lab - even occasions like these deserve a photo!
Candid shot at the CS rooftop overlooking the NTU skyline at night.
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Sunday, October 23, 2005 11:42 PM
Clubbing ladies night!
Photo spam! This set is from clubbing last Wednesday, ladddddieesss nightttt! :)
 The ladies of the night.  Posing on the Bridge.
 US! In Gotham Penthouse.
 The boys and their Pseudo-friend.
 Dancing, albeit a little high as we look at Jings.
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Saturday, October 22, 2005 3:26 AM
the MAC lab.
Nights have become day. I'm living and breathing the MAC lab. I swear, this has become my new home. A stuffy room where the air-conditioner automatically switches off after a certain time, where there are about forty geeky looking computers. Not my idea of a glam room, but it will have to do. One minute we are working on our project - the video and the website crap, and another minute we're watching Sex And The City, and later on, a certain person pulls two chairs together and falls asleep, which I find impossible.
Although, we are almost at the finishing line. Filming, editing, creating a website out of nothing at all. This week has definitely been a week of firsts. Pictures later, I've become an absolute photo whore ever since I entered University, not that I wasn't already one before, but I'm even worse now, because I have a bunch of photo whores as friends. I swear we've taken a few hundred photos of ourselves in the last month.
Back to "work".
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Monday, October 17, 2005 12:58 AM
coffee shop supper
I've been so busy with work and with filming for my video project, and so many things have been happening concurrently. As much as there's work to do, there's also alot of fun involved. HAHA. Thought I'd post up some pictures as a more visual explanation with what is going on with my life nowadays.
This set displays Monday night's coffee shop supper near NTU, with my tutorial group mates as usual. LOL. Late night suppers rock, however the delectable but oily and fattening prata is bound to show soon. The only price we had to pay was climbing the NTU gate which is locked after midnight (we also held up the traffic, well, with six girls in the supper group, what else can you expect?) but it was rather fun and thrilling. We're a rather bimbotic bunch though, there was this large brown leaf sitting nicely in the middle of the road, and Jan thought it was some kind of large insect or reptile of some sort, and she started screaming her head off, causing the rest of the girls to follow suit and scream in unison and run away as fast as possible. What can I say?
The staring game was what ensued during supper, check out the winners and the losers. (The game's objectives is not to laugh first, very intellectual I know.)
 Dillon and Sarah - Sarah laughed even before the game began.  Felicia and Amy - Do we see traces of a smile on Amy?  Janissa and Arefa - Jan is laughing away but as you can see, Arefa hides her face from the camera. But I think we still can tell who the loser is.
 Me and Jingli - I was getting good at it, but Jingli just makes these stupid faces, and I succumbed to the camera instead. This is what CS students do at 1am in the morning.
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Sunday, October 16, 2005 11:59 AM
Into The Blue
My lovely ladies - Arefa, Melissa, Xuelin, Me and Felicia. Our hard work for our CS 111 project finally paid off with the charity premiere screening of "Into The Blue" (Not Deuce Bigalow!) on 6th October. We, being the photo whores we are, decided to take pictures instead of watching the movie itself. This actually kinda reflects our narcisstic nature, preferring to look at ourselves rather than the undoubtedly hotter Jessica Alba.
 My amazing "Ben & Jerry's" tutorial group who came down to support us. This was taken at Acid Bar - a celebratory party after the movie screening. My tutorial group finds every opportunity to turn a school event into a party of some sort.
 Vainies at heart. The five of us preening in the one handicapped toilet at Cathay Cineleisure while the movie was screening. Just so that we could look "fresh and like the night never started" when the guests came out of the movie theatre afterward. But I think some hair company should consider using this photo as their hair campaigning strategy. Because we have nice hair - and we're not afraid to flaunt it, in the mirror.
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Saturday, October 08, 2005 11:41 PM
i miss april.
"And even though we'll be spending this phase of life apart physically, I'll always have you, Rah & Ling in that little corner of my heart, promise."
April sucks. That line just did it, I cried. She has such a way with words, but thank you so much for the letter and the photo, it's so beautiful and it summarises everything I would have wanted to say to you as well. I refrained from crying at the airport, tears simply formed in my eyes, but it's already an accomplishment for me. So I come home, and this funny, empty, aching feeling hits me. Both Ling and April are now gone. Then I read the letter... And I really cry.
April, you've been my best friend for a decade now, even though in between we were enemies as well. We've grown up together, you've seen me at my ugliest phases of my life and been with me through practically every laughter and every tear that I've shed.
"My best friend is April Chin Siew Ling..."
That essay which I wrote in Primary 3 about you got printed in the school magazine. I think that was a wonderful part of God's plan to keep our friendship in print, and it will be there forever, even though I have no idea where the original copy went to.
I miss you and I love you loads. :)
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Monday, October 03, 2005 11:31 PM
childhood dreams.
Today, during lunch, we had fun, senseless conversations for two hours. We as in my tutorial gang - Fel, Mel, Jan, Arefa, Luq, Jingli and I. This comment came up: Architecture students ponder on the meaning of life. And I agreed. And I also thought about how Engineering students would probably spend their lunch discussing the theories of physics or something. Then I reflected on us, this bunch of Mass Communication students, not spending our lunch break studying even though we have mid-terms in two days... But gushing over our brand of politics (i.e. The Cute, Charming Minister Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan), laughing for minutes on end about the cartoons we used to watch and how today's cartoons totally cannot compare (Captain Planet, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rocked our world). Mel used to cry at Sesame Street because Ernie and Bert were constantly separated, Arefa hates the "Heart" guy in Captain Planet, whom we could not remember the name of, Fel loves Animaniacs... Jingli says that people who like Donatello, the purple turtle in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are intelligent people, he didn't bother explaining his theory though. So from cartoons, we moved on to, well Jingli and I moved on to gush over Martina Hingis, and we cursed Venus and Serena upside down. LOL. While the rest of them discussed the wonders of the vacuum ice-cream machine, where this vacuum thing sucks up the ice-cream to deposit it in the collection hole.
How the seven of us had such a ridiculous but funny and yet nostalgic conversation for two hours is beyond me. But, I can't deny that I'm enjoying it and I've found my comfort zone. :)
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